What perfect software did you discover of recent?

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Of recently I discovered three tools that I would describe as perfect i.e solving my problem exactly.What services or products would you describe as perfect for your needs?The first was Arbitrage Calculator [1]. Its. A tool I used for sports betting Arbitrage to compute the arbitrage conditions & payouts.The second is Obsidian [2] This has completely replaced Google Keep as my notes taking app.The third has been Lithium [3]. I currently do 90% of my book reading in this app. The ergonomics of epub copies is just perfect and this is a perfect epub reader.Fourth is Scrivener. [4] Planning to write by first book with this. It's just perfect.Last is Button Down [5] This allowed me to add a subscription page on my statically hosted blog. And the minimalistic nature of the service made it perfect.[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ajinkyamankar.surebetarbitragecalculator[2]: https://obsidian.md[3]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.faultexception.reader[4]: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview[5]: https://buttondown.email/

sandreas · Accepted Answer

The tools I personally use and could not live without are: ncdu - disk usage stats KeePassXC - Offline password manager Pi-Hole - Ad blocker Thorium - Great ungoogled browser with a lot of tweaks ImgBurn - Burn utility for windows Immich - self hosted image backup (not perfect, but better than anything else) Preview - macOS Preview app, never found anything better on other systems (I miss it on Linux) Mail - macOS Mail app, never found anything better (I miss it on Linux) TestDisk/photorec - forensic recovery tool

speedylight · Answer

If you have a Mac, Rectangle on is an excellent open source solution for window management. It&rsquo;s almost like I never left windows with some bounces sprinkled on top.- https://rectangleapp.com

kevinsync · Answer

Beyond Compare &mdash; a visual diff tool. It&rsquo;s so freakin good.https://www.scootersoftware.com

ElevenLathe · Answer

Glamorous Toolkit (https://gtoolkit.com/) and the underlying Pharo (https://pharo.org/). Writing Pharo code (a modern implementation of Smalltalk) in the GT environment is the most fun I've had programming in years.

adamhp · Answer

CleanShot X for Mac. One of the more intuitive UIs I've seen and just works, works well, and is feature rich.

SushiHippie · Answer

Vaultwarden - self-hostable Bitwarden, written in rust, compatible with all official bitwarden clients
ncdu - disk usage stats
fzf - fuzzy finding for everything in your shell
helix - tui editor, basically a mix of (neo)vi(m) and kakoune, with batteries included i.e. LSP support, written in rust, and you don't need to configure much
zfs - not really software, but a filesystem
jellyfin - self hostable media server, i.e. streaming movies and music, which automatically fetches metadata for your movies and music

amerkhalid · Answer

A few months ago, I discovered Mac Whisper, thanks to fellow hn user[1]. This is great and works perfectly. I take stream of consciousness notes with a lot of silence. This transcribe these notes and let me search through my notes with simple text search.1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37777259

fandorin · Answer

Slideshower - it solves my problem - how to easily run a randomised photo slideshow on macOS - perfectly.
(Disclaimer: I've developed it to solve my problem but it seems that there are many people having the same problem...)
https://slideshower.com

leosanchez · Answer

Doesn't lithium has a bug when you highlight your text it highlights everything in that paragraph sometimes ?

chippyty · Answer

Gnu Icecat, so far the only one that does not connect to anything except what the user types in address bar.

petargyurov · Answer

Shottr [0]Screenshot utility for Mac. It's free but it works so well I recently purchased a license for like &pound;6.[0] https://shottr.cc/

BOOSTERHIDROGEN · Answer

Have you compare Lithium to Google Play Books ? how is the font is it good ?

fragmede · Answer

https://contexts.co/, to fix the alt-tab behavior on MacOS

schappim · Answer

Alfred App. Couldn't use a mac w/out it.https://www.alfredapp.com

photon_collider · Answer

Things 3 for task management. No subscriptions and it isn&rsquo;t bloated with too many features like other todo apps.

aborsy · Answer

Wireguard, ZFS, Restic, Vaultwarden, Synology DSM, Docker, Proxmox.

b20000 · Answer

lotus 1-2-3

commandersaki · Answer

Monodraw for diagramming.

KomoD · Answer

Well... I'm not sure about perfect but:- LocalSend- Autokey- Solaar- Kitty- Atuin

What perfect software did you discover of recent?

If you have a Mac, Rectangle on is an excellent open source solution for window management. It’s almost like I never left windows with some bounces sprinkled on top.
- https://rectangleapp.com

Beyond Compare — a visual diff tool. It’s so freakin good.
https://www.scootersoftware.com

Glamorous Toolkit (https://gtoolkit.com/) and the underlying Pharo (https://pharo.org/). Writing Pharo code (a modern implementation of Smalltalk) in the GT environment is the most fun I've had programming in years.

CleanShot X for Mac. One of the more intuitive UIs I've seen and just works, works well, and is feature rich.

Slideshower - it solves my problem - how to easily run a randomised photo slideshow on macOS - perfectly.
(Disclaimer: I've developed it to solve my problem but it seems that there are many people having the same problem...)
https://slideshower.com

Doesn't lithium has a bug when you highlight your text it highlights everything in that paragraph sometimes ?

Gnu Icecat, so far the only one that does not connect to anything except what the user types in address bar.

Shottr [0]
Screenshot utility for Mac. It's free but it works so well I recently purchased a license for like £6.
[0] https://shottr.cc/

Have you compare Lithium to Google Play Books ? how is the font is it good ?

https://contexts.co/, to fix the alt-tab behavior on MacOS

Alfred App. Couldn't use a mac w/out it.
https://www.alfredapp.com

Things 3 for task management. No subscriptions and it isn’t bloated with too many features like other todo apps.

Wireguard, ZFS, Restic, Vaultwarden, Synology DSM, Docker, Proxmox.

lotus 1-2-3

Monodraw for diagramming.

Well... I'm not sure about perfect but:
- LocalSend
- Autokey
- Solaar
- Kitty
- Atuin

What perfect software did you discover of recent?

If you have a Mac, Rectangle on is an excellent open source solution for window management. It’s almost like I never left windows with some bounces sprinkled on top.- https://rectangleapp.com

Beyond Compare — a visual diff tool. It’s so freakin good.https://www.scootersoftware.com

Glamorous Toolkit (https://gtoolkit.com/) and the underlying Pharo (https://pharo.org/). Writing Pharo code (a modern implementation of Smalltalk) in the GT environment is the most fun I've had programming in years.

CleanShot X for Mac. One of the more intuitive UIs I've seen and just works, works well, and is feature rich.

Slideshower - it solves my problem - how to easily run a randomised photo slideshow on macOS - perfectly.(Disclaimer: I've developed it to solve my problem but it seems that there are many people having the same problem...)https://slideshower.com

Doesn't lithium has a bug when you highlight your text it highlights everything in that paragraph sometimes ?

Gnu Icecat, so far the only one that does not connect to anything except what the user types in address bar.

Shottr [0]Screenshot utility for Mac. It's free but it works so well I recently purchased a license for like £6.[0] https://shottr.cc/

Have you compare Lithium to Google Play Books ? how is the font is it good ?

https://contexts.co/, to fix the alt-tab behavior on MacOS

Alfred App. Couldn't use a mac w/out it.https://www.alfredapp.com

Things 3 for task management. No subscriptions and it isn’t bloated with too many features like other todo apps.

Wireguard, ZFS, Restic, Vaultwarden, Synology DSM, Docker, Proxmox.

lotus 1-2-3

Monodraw for diagramming.

Well... I'm not sure about perfect but:- LocalSend- Autokey- Solaar- Kitty- Atuin

If you have a Mac, Rectangle on is an excellent open source solution for window management. It’s almost like I never left windows with some bounces sprinkled on top.
- https://rectangleapp.com

Beyond Compare — a visual diff tool. It’s so freakin good.
https://www.scootersoftware.com

Slideshower - it solves my problem - how to easily run a randomised photo slideshow on macOS - perfectly.
(Disclaimer: I've developed it to solve my problem but it seems that there are many people having the same problem...)
https://slideshower.com

Shottr [0]
Screenshot utility for Mac. It's free but it works so well I recently purchased a license for like £6.
[0] https://shottr.cc/

Alfred App. Couldn't use a mac w/out it.
https://www.alfredapp.com

Well... I'm not sure about perfect but:
- LocalSend
- Autokey
- Solaar
- Kitty
- Atuin